| 单词 | despoil |
| 释义 | despoil (once / 2316 pages) v Despoil is to spoil, only worse. You may spoil a dinner party by being late, but we all despoil the earth with pollution and over-consumption. The Latin root of despoil meant "to strip or rob" and although despoil is used more broadly now, it has that sense within it. When we despoil the earth, we rob it of its beauty and strip it of its natural resources. In the same way, invading armies despoil villages by wrecking their houses and raping, or despoiling, the women in them: robbing both of their beauty and innocence. WORD FAMILYdespoil: despoilation, despoiled, despoiler, despoiling, despoilment, despoils, despoliation+/despoiler: despoilers USAGE EXAMPLESThe eight-minute “Retribution” starts with her calmly declaiming about materialism despoiling Mother Earth. New York Times(Nov 04, 2016) But it is difficult to imagine the villages whole again, with their emptied streets and houses lying in ruin or despoiled by the militants. Washington Post(Oct 30, 2016) One Edenic paradise will be despoiled, but another will thrive. Creation and destruction are inextricably linked; so, for that matter, are creation and evolution. Los Angeles Times(Oct 06, 2016) 1v steal goods; take as spoils Syn|Hypo|Hyper foray, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle, strip deplume, displume strip of honors, possessions, or attributes take take by force 2v destroy and strip of its possession Syn|Hyper plunder, rape, spoil, violate destroy, ruin destroy completely; damage irreparably |
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